Quote of the Month
Donald Harbison of IBM, speaking to ZDNet UK in
his role as co-chair of the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee, said
that governments around the world should contemplate adopting
open standards:
"Open standards ensure flexibility for government information
technology solutions and infrastructure, increasing technology
options for citizens and users," said Harbison.
"Implementers can easily configure information systems and
procure technology from a wide variety of vendors at best value
price points, helping (IT professionals) to adapt to
ever-changing requirements and procedures."
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Spotlight on the Interoperability Committee and DMTF Forums -
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CDM Forum: The Common
Diagnostics Model Forum is dedicated to uniting the computer industry
on a single interoperable interface to all system diagnostics. Part of
the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM), the CDM specification is widely used
throughout the industry to evaluate the health of hardware systems in
multi-vendor environments.
In 2007, the CDM Forum was busy at work: developing the
infrastructure and tools for CDM Conformance testing; creating a
working draft of CDM Self-Certification program; increasing industry
promotion for CDM adoption; and working towards an industry available
CDM Software Developer's Kit (SDK) to accelerate the adoption of CDM.
This coming year, the CDM Forum hopes to: establish the CDM Forum CDM
conformance/certification program; deliver an Industry available CDM
SDK; and host a CDM plugfest (late 2008) and CDM marketing/analyst
event (early 2009).
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System Management Forum: The
System Management Forum (SMF) develops and implements programs for
verifying compliance of software and hardware that implement DMTF
system management standards. This includes the DASH and SMASH
Initiatives.
SMF also organizes plugfests to demonstrate the interoperability of
participating companies’ products. These plugfests ensure the quality
of the conformance program and provide a checkpoint with the industry
on the state of interoperability among leading DASH and SMASH
implementers. In 2007, SMF hosted several events, including a DASH
plugfest at the 2007 DMTF Alliance
Partner Technical Symposium, and demos that showcased
implementations based on DASH, SMASH and related tools at the Management Developers Conference.
On March 3-5, SMF will host a DMTF-private plugfest, which is open
to only DMTF members, at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Full details and guidelines describing the plugfest
may be obtained from the SMF co-chairs at smf-leadership@dmtf.org.
EVENTS
Register for the DMTF Alliance Partner Technical
Symposium
Registration is now open for the 2008 DMTF Alliance Partner Technical Symposium,
held March 25-28 at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California.
Sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and led by Mark Carlson, DMTF
vice president of alliances, the symposium agenda will focus on
technical topics and joint work between each of the DMTF’s Alliance Partners.
A few of the session
opportunities at the technical symposium are still available for
attendance and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Click here to register for
the event today (registration is free), and look forward to getting the
inside track of the work going on in SNIA, DMTF and its Alliance
Partners. For more details on the technical symposium, click here.
In conjunction with the symposium, DMTF will also hold a Green Summit
on Tuesday, March 25. The Green Summit is the first technical summit of
the multiple organizations collaborating to manage the power and cooling
aspects of data center equipment through standard models and interfaces.
This day-long summit will include presentations from each group and
include time for creative discussions and organization of further
collaboration. On Wednesday, March 26, DMTF will host its annual
Alliance Partner business meeting and dinner.
DMTF at the Microsoft Management Summit
DMTF is proud to again sponsor the 2008
Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), held April 28-May 2 at the
Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of this year’s event is
Integrate IT, reflecting the increasingly complex world of IT management
and the key role integration has to play in reducing complexity while
maximizing flexibility, availability and performance.
Sessions, speakers and industry experts during MMS 2008 will focus on
how the latest wave of management solutions support the following:
- Integration with your business objectives
- Integration across your IT disciplines
- Integration between your management products and technologies
- Integration across platforms and vendor boundaries
This year's event will once again offer more than 100 technical
breakout sessions covering a broad range of management topics. Attendees
will have opportunities to meet presenters and discuss session content
informally during Q&A and Chalk Talk sessions and more than 9,000
Hands-On Labs.
Click here to view the conference
agenda and to access registration information.
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